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I'm interested to know if there are many others who would be interested in a Multisim viewer. I'm hoping engineering see's this and it pricks their design creativity. In my business, it would be very handy to have a low-cost viewer that our techs could use as they trouble-shoot the board. It's not cost effective for us to buy complete licenses for techs that will only view, but not change the schematic. Right now we print out the schematics, but not every value is available (it would be too crowded on the schematic) and the comments are hidden. Plus you can't zoom in on printed paper. The competition (read Mentor Graphics) have free viewers available.

Some other suggestions:

- The ability to have the values of a part pop up when the mouse is hovered over it. (Should be able to be switched off).

- The ability to group parts so that they can be oriented as a group. (Similar to how it is available in the component wizard).

I want to add my support for this idea. We have an internal department that does circuit design and testing for prototypes and we currently have to either print out the circuit diagrams or huddle around a computer with a license of Multisim. We simply do not have the budget to buy extra full licenses of Multisim to discuss board layouts.

Having a Multisim Viewer would be a great value-added feature for designers using Multisim because it would allow for better dialog with their clients during the design phase. SolidWorks has done something along these lines. I have used their viewer when working with mechanical designers and its been a great asset. In the SolidWorks viewer, you can add comments, make measurements and mark-up the design to communicate issues and revisions to the design.

Your idea of installing MultiSim and then letting it time out was a good one, but unfortunately, it didn't work. I'm afraid we will still have to wait for National Instruments to develop a viewer. Again, I encourage anyone interested in this to let them know that a viewer is a much needed tool.